NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- No presidential debate in American history had a larger audience than Monday night's event between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, ratings figures show.
According to Nielsen Media Research, an average of 84 million people watched the debate on one of the networks that carried it live from New York's Hofstra University on Monday. That figure alone is sufficient to break the old record of 80.6 million viewers set during a 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.